Thoughts on deep work, productivity, and building a life around what matters.
I lost the sentence again this morning — not the words, the shape of where it was going — somewhere between a Slack message and my half-built paragraph.
The phone accounted for nine minutes. The other thirty-three were spent staring at an open document, not quite back. That's attention residue — and it's the part nobody talks about.
Every focus app starts from the same premise: something about you isn't working. Where they diverge is in what they think that something is.
Everyone has advice on how to focus. Wake up early, block distracting apps, use a Pomodoro timer. But deep work is a skill — and skills are built through practice, not optimised through conditions.